There's no high ground left to capture by either a stubborn president who won't see or hear the truth about where his path to "victory" in a lost war really leads, or the new Democratic majority in Congress, which is too timid and f
For more than eight hours, nearly 200 passengers sat in an American Airlines Boeing 757 jet on the tarmac in Midland, Texas. Their flight last month from Phoenix to Dallas had been diverted because of bad weather in the Dallas area.
The snacks ran
The Army is fixing the doors of every armored Humvee in combat in Iraq because they can jam shut during an attack and trap soldiers inside, Pentagon records and interviews show.
A few days ago we were uncivil to New York Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman, over his story about Somalia, in which he told readers the little tussle over there was mostly the fault of a bunch of greedy gangsters with inborn anarchic tendencies who
Rescue crews combed piles of debris where homes and businesses once stood in Greensburg, Kansas, in a meticulous search for survivors of a killer tornado. By nightfall searchers had not found anyone else -- alive or dead -- in the rubble, leaving the
Gen Sir Michael Rose also told the BBC's Newsnight programme that the US and the UK must "admit defeat" and stop fighting "a hopeless war" in Iraq. Iraqi insurgents would not give in, he said. "I don't excuse them f
Is a college degree really a sign of competence? Or is it chiefly a signal to employers that you've mastered the ability to obey and conform? (Her suggestion for this problem is wrong. I'd woudl suggest to seperate school and state)
French voters chose Nicolas Sarkozy as their new president on Sunday, giving the conservative a mandate for change. His Socialist opponent conceded minutes after polls closed.
Today's foreign terrorists could be tomorrow's US refugees if the Bush adminstration gets its way. The intent is to grant refugee status to rebels who have fought repressive governments or advanced US foreign policy objectives, particularly
Pope Benedict XVI supports Iran's right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, report a local news agency. The pope was speaking in a meeting in the Vatican with former Iranian president and head of the Inter. Centre of Dialogue
The US and its Latin America allies are losing a major battle in the war on drugs, according to indicators that show cocaine prices dipped for most of 2006 and US users were getting more bang for their buck. Despite billions of dollars
A riesgo de asumir notas del viejo cliché manoseado, repetido y eternamente utilizado para provocar las apocalípticas expectativas racionales, lo hago porque con profunda convicción creo en lo afirmado en el resto de mi escrito. Pienso que, desde los
Next time you agonize over a gun-fired atrocity celebrated incessantly on Page 1 by a heartless and immoral press, remember, guns save lives, too. Guns protect people. Guns stop crime. Guns are why America is still free. If you think a gun's only
The stranglehold of the mainstream (and even most of the so-called “alternative”) press on information they deem “unsafe” for the American public’s consumption has suffered a fatal blow. According to the MSNBC post-debate poll, the very network that
Meetup has been chosen as the web community of choice by the Ron Paul Campaign. Groups are still forming and growing. Ron Paul - Hope for America ... BE A PART OF IT!
The administration's Iran policy was for years somewhat paralyzed by Iraq and an interanl arguement inside the adminstrationi between those who advocate "regime change" vs. those who advocate "behavior change." Led by Sec of
A critic of Iraq's draft oil law with perhaps the biggest shadow -- one its original authors -- says the version penned by oil experts has been compromised by politics and he no longer wants it approved. "I think really the majority of the
AWESOME video documentary on 9/11. A conservative republican decides to debunk the 9/11 conspiracy theorists and produces a 1.5 hour video that refutes the official story point after point after point. EXCEPTIONALLY WELL done, show it to all your fr
Consider the lives of three men. The first was a very wealthy man. He owned 35,000 acres and 216 slaves. The second man was a lawyer. He expressed admiration of monarchy and his contempt for common people. The life of the third man was more complex
The National Rifle Association is urging the Bush administration to withdraw its support of a bill that would prohibit suspected terrorists from buying firearms.
Backed by the Justice Department, the measure would give the attorney general the discr
Six hundred pages of documents relating to intelligence that New York City gathered before the 2004 Republican National Convention should be made public, a federal judge ruled. He struck down the city's attempt to keep the documents confidential,
One current and two former Alaska legislators pleaded not guilty Friday to charges they accepted bribes _ including cash and a job offer in Barbados for one man _ to support legislation for an oil services company.